OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of English Linguistics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England	8
Academic Naming: Changing Patterns of Noun Use in Research Writing	8
Democratization and Gender-neutrality in English(es)	6
Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English	6
“That’s well good”: A Re-emergent Intensifier in Current British English	4
Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequencyneed-passives on Twitter	3
A Diachronic Study of Modals and Semi-modals in Indian English Newspapers	3
On the History of the English Progressive ConstructionJane came whistling down the street	3
Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes: A Real-time Study of Genitive Variation in Caribbean and Indian News Writing	3
Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English: Evidence of Usage and Pathways of Change	3
Negation and Verb-initial Order in Old English Main Clauses	3
“Holding Grudges Is So Last Century”: The Use of GenX So as a Modifier of Noun Phrases	3
(Un)democratic Epicene Pronouns in Asian Englishes: A Register Approach	3
Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in the Variation of Negative Question Tags	2
A Little Something Goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus	2
nurseVowels in Scottish Standard English: Still Distinct or Merged?	2
“The woman in the background”: Gendered Nouns in CNN and FOX Media Discourse	2
“A Good Deal of Intensity”: On the Development of Degree and Quantity Modifier Good	2
Intonation and Referee Design Phenomena in the Narrative Speech of Black/Biracial Men	2
Merger Reversal in St. Louis: Implementation and Implications	2
“He should so be in jail”: An Empirical Study on Preverbal So in American English	2
Synthetic Intensification Devices in Old English	2
Intensification in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing	2
Non-sexist Language Policy and the Rise (and Fall?) of Combined Pronouns in British and American Written English	2
Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities (and Epidemiology)	2

N-isFocalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions: Modeling Variation across World Englishes